Curt- I dont believe you should hve lost money. If you had put the cost as an
approximate and the final shipping to be computed at the close of the auction,
you could have still been fair in charging actual shipping and also been fair
to yourself and not lost money. My thoughts are directed towards those who
knowingly add five or more dollars to shipping. I can afford to bid more if I
dont have to pay inflated prices.On the other hand I do see some suctions the
seller quotes shipping and I know ot will be higher. I want to pay what he
spends- I dont want to pay for more tho.
TtT
--- On Sun, 5/10/09, Curt <choffman9@cinci.rr.com> wrote:
> From: Curt <choffman9@cinci.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [Tigers] Shipping and Handling
> To: tigers@autox.team.net
> Date: Sunday, May 10, 2009, 5:21 PM
> I recently sold a bunch of stuff on
> Ebay and used the automatic shipping price feature. I
> measured the box, weighed it (without any packing material)
> and then used that in the Ebay feature. I sold an intake
> manifold off my Tiger, an aftermarket seat for my Harley, 30
> boxes of slide trays, and such. Several of the items sold
> for abotu $20. Seems like in every case the shipping ( I
> selected the cheapest option) cost around $20 in the Ebay
> feature. I ended up paying more ( a buck to about $5) for
> every item out of pocket. Had I paid for the total shipping
> cost it would have been easer and certainly cheaper to just
> toss the stuff in the garbage. I think it is important to be
> fair. I would expect to get whatever the shipping costs.
> They get the part for what they bid. The good thing about
> the shipping feature you can see about what it is going to
> cost to send it to you. My time of course was unreimbursed,
> but the time to throw it in the garbage would have
> been as well and I don't like that option generally if there
> is someone out there who wanted the items. I was willing to
> give for the price of the shipping and was happy to get the
> small "donation" on some of the items.
>
>
> Curt
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Witt" <atwittsend@verizon.net>
> To: <tigers@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 5:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tigers] Shipping and Handling
>
>
> > I agree with Gary's policy and have done the
> same. But again, I'll temper that with the fact that
> some people sell as a business, not as someone "cleaning
> their garage out." Because of the shear volume, they
> have to buy new boxes rather than scavenge for them. And
> they have to pay someone to package and take the items to
> the shipper. In many cases the seller is out buying more
> items to sell and doesn't have time to package and ship
> themselves.
> >
> > If the seller "ate" those cost they couldn't be
> a seller for long. So, different situations apply for
> sellers. I think it's great people like Gary and I can
> do what we do to keep cost down, but I don't think it can be
> expected of everyone.
> >
> > Now, this may seem odd, but three times I've
> sold something on ebay and it didn't sell for much. As
> an example, last week I sold a set of 318 heads and a
> matching 4bbl. intake. It they for the low starting price of
> $14.99. The buyer felt he had paid so little in comparison
> to what he was going to bid that he sent me $20. And,
> as I have said this has happened three times in what I'll
> guess is about fifty or so transactions that the buyer has
> sent me MORE than the correct amount.
> >
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